Quotes About Past

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

I am counting on nothing but the facts about me. So come on, Future. I've my back against the past. Anyway, as you see, it is too late to argue. I've crossed the Rubicon, and can return only when I have built a new bridge.

For I was afraid of memory; I knew that our memories and reminiscences are like icebergs. We see only the tips in passing, but the mass of land under water slips by unseen and inaccessible. We do not feel their immeasurable weight simply because they lie submerged in time, as in water. But, if we carelessly find ourselves in their way, we shall run aground against our own past and be shipwrecked.

La vida duele. Cada movimiento que hago está equivocado y cada palabra mía es errónea. Y cada uno de esos errores se paga caro… Entre nosotros, allá, el futuro es como un insomnio infinito, y el hombre es como un caracol; deja su pasado baboso tras de sí como una huella transparente y carga el futuro sobre su espalda como una concha de caracol en la que se ovilla cada noche para pernoctar…

Nostalgia is longing for a place you'd never move back to.

The past has come apart events are vagueing the future is inexploitable

I love romantic comedies. I feel almost sheepish writing that, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years or so that admitting you like these movies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity. But that has not stopped me from watching them.

To lovers! — the have-been's, the are-now's, and the may-be's.

Where did they go, those things we did?

No pretendo explicar aquí por qué la amé, un asunto inexplicable como todo lo natural. Tampoco quiero siquiera relatar aquí qué nos sucedió hace diez (¿tal vez once o doce?) días. Pienso tan solo en convocar a mi pasado, o tal vez en remodelar el pasado, o en inventarlo, o en hacer todo a la vez, pues me interesa tan solo tener un pasado, una serie de imágenes que sean o que sustituyan el caos en que me muevo ahora.

In fact, prayer and certainty are the same thing; both mean the power to truly see into the future, the true future, not the image of the eternal return of the past: no one prays for the sun to come up tomorrow.

If one fights in the arena forgetful of the past, Success will elude him who ignores what he should know.

The descendant who does what is good. His actions all emulate the past. Do not consort with a rowdy. It harms you when one hears of it.

But the boy was there, and he was looking at her. That was when Yorda understood what was drawing out her memories of the castle into the boy. It was him. He wanted to know its dark past. He wanted to know everything. No one could stop this. Not even the queen.

La mer qui, avec sa clémence, demeure seule capable de nous faire voir clair dans nos propres sentiments. Sans lever les yeux sur ce qui se passe au dehors, j'écoute le chuchotement de plus en plus rapproché, haletant, de ses vagues. Entre ce passé et ma vie actuelle, j'avais la certitude que plus un lien ne subsistait, que tous les fils étaient rompus, et je n'éprouvais aucun désir de voir ressusciter ce qui avait sombré dans l'oubli.

I loved him in the way that one loves those who no longer matter: poignantly.

while she wanted to look neither to her past nor her future, she lived exclusively in both. They had took different paths, but they had journeyed, so she realized, together.

Yes, carbon paper, if any of you out there are old enough to remember what that was. Why, in those days we not only used carbon paper but when you phoned somebody you actually got an answer from a human being on the other end..

History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the future

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.

You are here to remind me of someone I long for, and what is it you long for yourself? We must have been together in an earlier life, you and I.

Ac? veriyorsa geçmi?, geçmemi? demektir.

Hayat?n eski günlere benzedi?i zamanlar ne?elendirirdi onu. Bir ko?u kom?uya se?irtircesine eski zamanlara gidip gelir; gözleri o günlerin bu?ulu ?????yla parlar, konu?urken sesi incelirdi. Belki de hayat herkes için gençlik demekti.

A?k, sevdi?iniz ki?inin mazisini de ele geçirmenizi ister sizden."A?k, birlikte ya?anmam?? zamanlar? da ele geçirmek ister.